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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Robert Menschel <Ro...@Menschel.net> on 2004/11/02 15:30:11 UTC

Re[2]: interesting paper on SoBig's authorship

Hello Simon,

Monday, November 1, 2004, 6:04:53 PM, you wrote:

SB> One of the things mentioned in the article is that Spam ...
SB> is *ALSO* sent deliberately to addresses where it will
SB> bounce, with the actual intended recipient as the Return address
SB> ...\

SB> This is a technique I've been aware of for a long time now, and have
SB> brought the issue up in the past a couple of times, but are there any
SB> plan to combat this in future versions of SpamAssassin ?

I've been quite happy with
http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings.cf
from Tim Jackson. His scoring has been a bit more aggressive than I
like, but his rules work well for rejecting spam and virus bounces.

Bob Menschel